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You know? I knew I was gaining weight but I just ignored it for so long.. Since the beginning of the year, my jeans didn't fit... Easy, I stopped wearing jeans and I bought bigger pants (I blamed the store sizes). I said to myself that I was eating healthy, then I pretended that I liked running (honestly, I did run for a…

Lindt makes a dark chocolate with sea salt bar that is heaven on earth! The sea salt makes it taste more like chocolate and somehow you need to less for more...

15 lbs / 9 kilos by the end of November. I think it's quite doable... And then maintaining... I've never been good at maintaning my weight so the holidays + a trip back home should be a strong enough challenge!!

A red with white top 2004 mini cooper called Mr. Q. He is British, you see? We still have him, but he is now with my parents. We love him too much for selling him, even with his old age (though he had a heart / motor transplant a few years ago).

Magical solution? Magical solution is drinking green tea to make your metabolism faster. That is a magical solution. 5:2 requires planning and it requires work. I much, much rather restrict twice a week and be able to eat what I want the other 5 days. But that's just me. I must admit that people make us believe that we…

THANK YOU! You are better explaining that I am! That is exactly how I feel! In less than two months I've lost half of my goal weight (I am on normal BMI so the kgs that I lose are sweat and blood, sweat and blood!), I have two friends (who stopped seeing me for about two weeks) telling me that I've lost weight, old jeans…

Bump... I will use this as a guide next time I eat Indian food!

Oh really?

That comment was just plain mean. Don't be a jerk. Do you tell the same to those people who are following a MFP and are far from the target weight? No. So don't do that to state your answers. If that person would lose tons of weight AND then gain them back, then you can say that it's a fad. But not what you're saying here.…

That's the thing. I'm eating at deficit and I'm losing. But I chose to create a weekly deficit and keep it that way, instead of a daily deficit.

Overnight oats with lf blueberry yogurt, blueberries and blackberries! So yummy!

I may try it! Maybe change the banana for berries (black berries or blueberries). I'm not a big fan of bananas. :flowerforyou: thank you!

That is amazing!

1209, I wasn't really hungry...

Same here! At first, I "needed" to eat breakfast, I "needed" to eat dinner.. And now, I just don't eat if I'm not hungry and I eat if I'm hungry. I also appreciate the good things in life, like chocolate, cheese, bread, because I eat them when I want to and I feel like doing it. IIFYM is much easier for me now than before.…

Why is that? If you follow the instructions to the dot, you find that your weekly deficit is exactly the same as the one marked by MFP. The only difference is that instead of choosing to create a deficit 7 days a week, you choose to do it on 2 days. Those 2 days? I call them "salad days" to my RL friends who I'm too lazy…

here.. here!!

I remember when I was around 13 years old I lost a lot of weight (around 15 kgs over 3 months). It was with the help of a nutriologist but I also kicked my *kitten* with exercise. My parents were very supportive with it. When I lost weight, all my friends wanted to do the same and just went to the doctor and slightly…

Distant Hours - Kate Morton. I read Kate's Secret Keeper, and though the first chapters are quite slow, and I was close to give up on the book, I kept going.. Until it trapped me! So good! This one seems to be like that.. The first chapters, the lady who narrates annoyed me (similar as in Secret Keeper), but it shifted and…

The movie Thank You for Smoking (about the marketing and publicity of the Cigarettes companies, among others) made me crave a cigarette so bad! Also, Mad Men? Seriously? I can't watch an episode without having a cigarette break haha

Am I the only one who thought it was strange that all the TOM posts where done during the same week? I knew that women living together syncronized their periods.. but women in the same online forum? Mind blowing. Just two words: Poor Guys. (And I'm saying this, because I was part of that club too last week).

I sometimes do (ok.. two times out of four intents). It is hard. But since I have busy fridays and I just can't seem to be able to fast on weekends, I do what it works for me.. and that means that sometimes I fast back to back. But it is hard! And I don't recommend it if you're just starting.

You are going to get a lot of haters here... I suggest joining the 5:2 groups so you get support. Also, I'm sorry but you're doing it wrong... It's 2 days of fasting and 5 days at TDEE. So it'll average around 1200.. The way you're doing it, you are getting WAY lower calories than you should and that's wrong. My two…

Mexican here.. I've lived in Edinburgh, New Zealand and Sweden. Right now I'm living in Switzerland but I'll be moving to Singapore in a month..

IMHO... I think you're eating too many carbs and not enough vegetables and fruits and protein... The only fruit that I see in some days is either at breakfast or at lunch! And I see zero vegetables! I'd start increasing veggies and fruits and protein (maybe a salad + grilled chicken for lunch or dinner, or a vegetable soup…

Bump... thank you!

I think some people are scared of feeling hungry. They think it's the end of the world as we know it.. But in reality, the majority of the hunger feelings are more in our minds than in our bodies... But seriously... Once I got over it, I learned to appreciate food so much more, to enjoy it, and to eat because I want to and…

This is a learning lesson: always check out the calories before eating something. It saves your mind from going crazy,.

5:2 baby, 5:2. I get to have calorie deficit over the week and still get to have frappuchinos during the week. (also exercising).

Also works by putting off the little thing on top (sorry, my mother language is not English!). If it's too green, that means it's not good, if it's yellow it's ok. It helps with the squeeze test and so far it's been really helpful for me! (I buy a lot of avocado!)